Biography
After two terms in the state House,Walker was narrowly unseated in the general election held on February 1,1972,by the Republican Clark Gaudin,also of Baton Rouge.
On November 2,1982,more than a decade after her state House service ended,Walker was elected to the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
A native of Meridian in Lauderdale County in eastern Mississippi,Walker had the maiden name of "Walker" too. Her parents were Rudolph Blanche Walker and the former Maggie Elizabeth George. [1]
Until his death,Walker was married for fifty-six years to Edward E. Walker (1921–1998). [1]
Walker was a charter member in 1956 of the Broadmoor Presbyterian Church at 9340 Florida Boulevard in Baton Rouge;she was the captain of its first building fund in 1957. She died at her home in Baton Rouge at the age of ninety-three. She is entombed at Greenoaks Mausoleum in Baton Rouge. [1]
